A United States. You wouldn’t say “a uniform”. You would say “an underling”. First one has a y sound to start, second has a u sound to start. The usage of a/an depends on the next sound, not the next letter.

Soy sauce, Kikkoman isn’t going to be beat by a store brand. Likewise with Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce.

Some brand name chocolate (Hersheys) is disgusting due to their use of butyric acid. Vomit chocolate

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You can’t pay for donations as that encourages risky behavior. People who shouldn’t donate will if they can make money.

Air is significantly cleaner now than the 70s/80s, and airplanes still continuously replace the air because it’s not airtight. It’s pressurized but always leaking a bit. It is not expensive nor was it turned off. About half the air is recirculated after passing through a HEPA filter, the rest is fresh air (well, fresh bleed air).

It’s a flex.

Plenty of people, at least at one time, used clambake to refer to a hotbox. “Clambake weed” returns plenty of results, although it does appear the inverse sausagefest definition is more popular. Why can’t it be both?

Clambake has always meant smoking weed in an enclosed space to me, typically a car. See also: fishbowl

I have way too much fun Shazam-ing birds with the Merlin Bird ID app. Constantly listening for new calls now, it’s like Pokémon hunting IRL.

Nothing you send out to the internet can be deleted.

Fees are too high, and global market reach means prices are set at a global or national level rather than local. FB still king for cheap local stuff.

Don’t forget that the hammer is cocked, making the it single action rather than double action. Much less trigger pull (length and force) required to fire.

I dislike AI for just about everything, except memes and shitposts. It’s a great fit

Not even close. iPhone 8 from 2017 is still supported.

I build ratio on private trackers by getting as much freeleech stuff as I can, even though I might not be into it. Timing is key also, I’ll snatch anything I think will blow up. If you get in early you can get lots of upload. This worked great to get my initial ratio built up on what.cd and redacted.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean they have to remove the mute button or make it so damn loud.

That’s the thing, it makes you pay attention, at least for me. I never want to tell the temperature, but a warm seat makes me question the decision I made to sit down.

Thanks, didn’t know about this.

Voyager is one of my favorite apps these days, and a fantastic example of “web apps don’t have to suck”.

I’ve been spending a majority of my time on here when I do my “Redditing”. I only visit the old site for niche topics. I spend as little time as possible there, I don’t upvote or downvote anything, and I don’t comment either. It’s read-only for me out of principle. I save all interactions for the fediverse.

I doubt all the communities will rebuild elsewhere, but I’m okay with that. Some fragmentation is necessary. Smaller communities make individual voices louder, and you have less ugly “sidedness”. When humans get into a critical mass IRL they can start to do strange things, I think we see this in social media as well.